Motivational Quotes

Courage

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

- Shoemaker, Willie

Best Quotes about Courage

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

41.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

43.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul